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Information about the meaning the original Greek of what seem to be key words is provided in blue.
Portions highlighted in yellow at the end of this post tell us something about God’s nature or our relationship to Him.
Portions in green text at the end of this post tell us about something God wants us to do.
46He went again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum;47hearing that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went and asked him to come and cure his son, as he was at the point of death.48Jesus said to him, 'Unless you see signs and portents you will not believe!'49'Sir,' answered the official, 'come down before my child dies.'50'Go home,' said Jesus, 'your son will live.' The man believed what Jesus had said and went on his way home;51and while he was still on the way his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.52He asked them when the boy had begun to recover. They replied, 'The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.'53The father realized that this was exactly the time when Jesus had said, 'Your son will live'; and he and all his household believed.
54This new sign, the second, Jesus performed on his return from Judaea to Galilee.
royal official = βασιλικός = basilikos Blue Letter Bible royal, belonging to a king; a courtier; one in the service of a king, a nobleman; petty king; the officer or minister of a prince; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon royal, kingly; as a king, with kingly authority; the king's friends or officers
went = ἀπέρχομαι = aperchomai Blue Letter Bible to set off, depart; to go away; Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon go away, depart from; implying departure from one place and arrival at another
asked =ἐρωτάω = erōtaō Blue Letter Bible to beseech; to make request; pray; to request, entreat, beg, beseech
believe, believed = πιστεύω = pisteuō Blue Letter Bible to be persuaded of, and hence, to place confidence in, to trust, signifies, in this sense of the word, reliance upon, not mere credence; to entrust, commit to; to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in; the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul; to have a faith directed unto, believing or in faith to give oneself up to; to commit oneself trustfully;Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon trust, put faith in, rely on; comply; feel confident that a thing is
What this scripture tells us about God/His ways
he had changed the water into wine
This new sign, the second, Jesus performed
What this scripture tells us to do
he went and asked [Jesus]
believe!
believed what Jesus had said
believed
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